Katy Perry leads the MTV VMA nominations

Adele and Kanye West not far behind with multiple nods

Katy Perry has scored a massive nine nominations in the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, which will take place at the end of August. Kanye West got seven nominations, and our own Brit talent Adele picked up six nominations.

The top honour Video of the Year has Katy's Firework, Adele's Rolling In The Deep, Beastie Boys' Make Some Noise, Bruno Mars' Grenade and Tyler The Creator's Yonkers video in the category.

Katy reportedly thought it was a typo when she saw she had nine nominations!

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